Deborah Banks

Brief Life History of Deborah

When Deborah Banks was born on 30 November 1752, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, John Banks, was 33 and her mother, Deborah Newman, was 22. She married Deacon Silas Sutherland about 1770, in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She died on 8 April 1781, in Bedford, Bedford, Westchester, New York, United States, at the age of 28, and was buried in Bedford, Westchester, New York, United States.

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Deacon Silas Sutherland
1755–1846
Deborah Banks
1752–1781
Marriage: about 1770
John B. SUTHERLAND
1771–1826
Silas Sutherland
1777–1820

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  • Deborah Banks Sutherland, "Find A Grave Index"
  • United States, New York Land Records, 1630-1975; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89WZ-QC7D?cc=2078654&wc=M7C4-P29%3A358138001%2C358651901

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1775

Post office est. July 26, 1775

1776

Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.

1781 · The First Constitution

Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.

Name Meaning

English: variant of Bank 5, with excrescent -s. The final -s may occasionally represent a plural form, but it is most commonly an arbitrary addition made after the main period of surname formation, perhaps under the influence of patronymic forms with a possessive -s.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bruacháin ‘descendant of Bruachán’, a byname for a large-bellied person. The English form was chosen because of a mistaken association of the Gaelic name with bruach ‘bank’. Compare Bank 6.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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